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The mishna teaches: an object found by a man's minor son or daughter, male or female Canaanite bondsman, or wife belongs to him, but an object found by his mature son or daughter, male or female Hebrew servant, or divorced wife belongs to the finder. The g'mara takes issue with the Hebrew maid-servant: if she is a minor then according to this mishna the object belongs to her father, and if she is mature then she has no business being a maid-servant, as she should have been freed at puberty. The g'mara answers that "it belongs to the finder" here means "it does not belong to the master"; the father of the minor maidservant will then acquire the object from her, but in any case the master does not get it. (12a-b)

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